Events take time, but they’re worth it. They’re where great conversations happen, unexpected ideas emerge, and those new connections turn into real opportunities—whether it’s a new client, investor, or future teammate.
At The Recursive, events are a big part of how we engage with the community, stay on top of industry trends, and showcase our work. In fact, as you read this, someone from our team is probably planning their next trip.
Here’s where we’ll be in the coming months—let’s catch up!
P.S: this list is work in progress, meaning that we will add new events as we decide to join.
February
Date: February 12-13
Location: Athens, Greece
Doers Summit 2025 is a premier event for founders, investors, and industry leaders, designed to foster collaboration, spark innovation, and create impactful partnerships.
Date: February 18-20
Location: Vienna, Austria
Now in its 11th edition, the event builds on a foundation of trust and high-caliber networking, bringing together leaders from an established network of LPs, GPs, and SPs, from or interested in the DACH region.
Date: February 20-27
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
From impactful summits and exclusive forums to dynamic challenges and meaningful networking opportunities, Investopia 2025 will bring together global leaders and innovators to shape tomorrow’s economy.
March
Date: March 27-28
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Money Motion has become the gathering point for over 700 companies and 3,500 professionals, blending diverse expertise from the financial and technological sectors.
April
Date: April 2-4
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
The 0100 Europe, Zero One Hundred Conferences’ premier event, attracts Limited Partners (LPs) and General Partners (GPs) from around the world with a Pan-European emphasis.
May
Date: May 8-16
Location: Vienna, Austria
ViennaUP is the startup festival in the heart of Europe, setting the context for startups, investors, tech enthusiasts, creatives and visionaries. Throughout the years, over 10,000 attendees joined their 50+ events.
CEE Innovation Forum
Date: May 12
Location: Vienna, Austria
Organized by The Recursive and weXelerate, CEE Innovation Forum is the premier gathering designed to unite the entrepreneurial, innovation, and venture communities of Central and Eastern Europe in the vibrant city of Vienna.
Date: May 14-16
Location: Budapest, Hungary
This 2-days conference brings together most of the LPs and GPs from the CEE region to discuss investment strategies and opportunities. From family offices to business angels, funds of funds and others, everyone here is ready for networking.
Date: May 15-16
Location: Limassol, Cyprus
This 2-days conference brings together most of the LPs and GPs from the CEE region to discuss investment strategies and opportunities. From family offices to business angels, funds of funds and others, everyone here is ready for networking.
Date: May 27
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Digitalk Conference 2025 will deep dive into the transformative impact of AI and showcase how to harness the unprecedented opportunities for growth and innovation that an AI-powered future presents.
June
Date: June 19-20
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
A conference that covers all trends in tech, startups and what the future holds for us. Thousands of founders, investors, and corporate innovators from across Europe will reveal their big ideas.
Date: June 23-24
Location: Bucharest, Romania
CEE Wealth Summit is an invitation-only conference bringing together family offices and family businesses for two days of inspiration, stimulation, best practices, stories from peers and exploration of regional opportunities.
Date: June 25-26
Location: Cluj, Romania
In the heart of Romania, this conference is where business and tech meet. Founders, investors and tech professionals from Europe meet and exchange ideas during speeches, workshops and networking.
September
Date: September 29 – October 1
Location: Munich, Germany
Bits & Pretzels is an annual conference for founders and aspiring entrepreneurs, taking place during the Oktoberfest. It gathers around 5,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and startup enthusiasts for three full days of learning, networking, inspiration and matchmaking.
October
Date: October 1-2
Location: Bucharest, Romania
How to Web is the “mecca” for startup founders, investors and business leaders in Eastern Europe. Actively contributing to it, this event is already a tradition for our team. The great combination of knowledge, good energy and can-do attitude fills us up and keeps us going until the year’s end.
Date: October 17-18
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
The Start Up, Bulgaria! conference is a national event designed to bring together entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators within Bulgaria’s startup ecosystem. The next edition of the conference is titled Crossroads, focusing on scaling businesses with an emphasis on sales, product development, talent acquisition, and differentiation strategies.
Date: October 22-23
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
This conference reunites business angels, investors in venture funds (LPs), managing partners of venture funds (GPs), and other players such as fund of funds, agencies, accelerators, and early-stage startup founders from the CEE region and Baltic states, or those interested in these areas.
November
Date: November 10-13
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
WebSummit is an annual event that gathers over 70,000 founders and CEOs of technology companies, fast-growing startups, policymakers, and heads of state to discuss the future of innovation and technology. We participated in the last four editions and are looking forward to this year’s.
Date: November 19-20
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Slush is a startup event bringing the global startup ecosystem together, with a focus on the Nordics. Thousands of startups and investors attend Slush annually and engage in the agenda’s stage program, side events, as well as networking.
